Al-Anon

Al-Anon

a resource and support group for adult relatives and close friends of alcoholics. Al-Anon is available to interested individuals even if the alcoholic does not participate in alcoholics anonymous.

Al-Anon

an international organization that offers guidance, counseling, and support for the relatives, friends, and associates of alcoholics. See also Alateen, Alcoholics Anonymous,Narcotics Anonymous.

Al-Anon

A community-based fellowship of relatives of alcoholics which operates under the aegis of Alcoholics Anonymous, and allows participants to share their experiences while facilitating discussion and resolution of common problems. See also Alateen.

Due to the author not separating Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon, and Alateen, the original, second, and third twelve-step programs that were started, out of whatever programs she meant, I am compelled to write.

She argues that behaviors and ideas around alcohol consumption--including those of avid drinkers, AA pioneers, Al-Anon wives, liquor advertisers, filmmakers and therapeutic experts--were crucial in shaping white middleclass gender positions in the decades from the repeal of prohibition in 1933 to the mid-1960s.

This paper will use Al-Anon as its primary example of a twelve-step group because it evidences issues clearly related to gender and defined sex roles, but many of the issues are similar in all groups modeled on AA.

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